About
Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD
Keynoter and Workshop Presenter
Ms. Bruno's engaging keynotes and workshops delight organizations with a mission for the greater good.
Please contact Holly Elissa at:
BRUNO DURATURO Keynotes and Teambuilding
35 Gates Road,
Sterling, MA 01564
Telephone & facsimile: 978-563-1174
Here is a short bio, for your use. Click HERE to see available Photos.
Holly Elissa Bruno, author, teacher and keynote speaker in early childhood education leadership, describes herself as a "recovering" attorney. Having worked as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maine, Holly Elissa was selected "outstanding professor" at the University of Maine-Augusta, where she also served as Dean of Faculty. An alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management, Holly Elissa teaches leadership and management courses for Wheelock College across the country. Her articles have been published in Child Care Exchange and NAEYC's Young Children journal. Her keynotes have delighted audiences from Budapest to Minneapolis, Tulsa to Tampa as have her featured presentations at NAEYC, Smart Start and regional Head Start annual conferences. For Holly Elissa, working with adults is as inspirational as working with children. Her textbook, Leading on purpose: Emotionally intelligent early childhood administration was released by McGraw-Hill in Fall 2008.
Here is her much more detailed bio:
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designs and delivers original programs on team building, emotional intelligence
(EQ), resolving conflict, legal and ethical issues, multicultural "family
friendly" practices, resilient leadership and managing power dynamics
among women at work. Certified to use both Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and Birkman
leadership inventories, she is consistently evaluated as a presenter "with
an uplifting sense of humor" who"inspires and transforms".
Holly Elissa, an alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational
Management, was selected outstanding professor at the University of Maine-Augusta.
She served as Academic Dean at that campus, Assistant Dean at University
of Maine Law School, and Strategic Planner for the University of Maine
system. As adjunct faculty at Wheelock College and Quinsigamond Community
College, she teaches management and communication.
Having practiced as an attorney, Ms. Bruno specializes in personnel law
including hiring, firing, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
when training managerial and staff teams. She is a former Assistant Attorney
General for the state of Maine and senior manager, in-house counsel at
Copyright Clearance Center in Massachusetts.
Ms. Bruno heads BRUNO DURATURO Keynotes and Teambuilding, in the Boston area. Clients have included Headstart, Families and Work Institute, Bright Horizons, World Bank, John Hancock, Frank Porter Graham Center (UNC), Wellesley College, Boston's Inner city Director's Network, WV Department of Education, the Cherokee Nation and numerous non- profit organizations.
Her keynotes and workshops have inspired audiences from Budapest to Albuquerque, Orlando to Chicago, Washington, DC, to Oklahoma City. She is an invited speaker at annual conferences including: NAEYC, NAEYC Professional Development Institute, National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), Smart Start, Region IV Headstart, NCCA (National Childcare Association) and National Louis University's Leadership Connections Conference.
Holly Elissa earned her BA (English) from Douglass College of Rutgers University, MA (English and Education) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and JD from the University of Maine School of Law.
She has published several articles on leadership in competitive national journals, Leadership QUEST and Childcare Information Exchange. Topics range from managing change, caring for the caregiver, legal and ethical issues, internal customer service, decision-making, staff motivation, to countering organizational gossip and negativity.
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